Help :(

[jsb666]

ok right just made my first PC from scratch, everything running booted up the pc and stuck the windows disk in. i got boot disk error tried again got the same boot disk error. there is a dvd-rom and a dvd-rw in the and only the dvd-rw seams to be being picked up by the system at the boot screen. i cant see the dvd-rom. the windows is meant 2 boot from cd-rom is that the problem that i done have a cd-rom drive please help. i knew i would get stuck somewhere and make a mistake nothing ever goes smooth :( lol

[Rankenphile]

Check your jumpers first, make sure they are set properly to slave/master or cable select.

[jsb666]

ye thanks m8 that was the problem i realised that done it now :)

[Rankenphile]

heh, that always gets me. Such a simple thing, so easy to forget.

[jsb666]

o well pc is up and running now quite happy with that one tiny mistake for my first time actually starting with a pile of componets in boxs around me :D

[Rankenphile]

Way to go :D

Now do the dance of joy, and your job is done.

[CanaBalistic]

Another thing worth mentioning even though this might not be applicable to you is the boot sequency. Some newbs often over look this. Its the priority the computer gives to bootable devices. It looks in one location and if no bootable media is found it jumps to the next device on the list. The problem usualy occurs when you have more than 4 IDE peripherials. The computer (new) might be set to boot off the floopy then the cd and then the hd. But if you have sevral floppy drives and sevral hard drives the computer might assign the three available boot sequence spaces to both floppies and one hard drive. And thus could make the computer not respond to the windows cd in the cd drive.

Just a note, take it how you please.

[Aero]

Another thing worth mentioning even though this might not be applicable to you is the boot sequency. Some newbs often over look this. Its the priority the computer gives to bootable devices. It looks in one location and if no bootable media is found it jumps to the next device on the list. The problem usualy occurs when you have more than 4 IDE peripherials. The computer (new) might be set to boot off the floopy then the cd and then the hd. But if you have sevral floppy drives and sevral hard drives the computer might assign the three available boot sequence spaces to both floppies and one hard drive. And thus could make the computer not respond to the windows cd in the cd drive.

Just a note, take it how you please.


True, but most recent mobo's have a CD or DVD set somewhere as default. Atleast most the the ones I have seen. Only time I havn't is in laptops.

[jsb666]

ye it was set as default but now i have hit an other problem seams i spoke to soon. i stuck in the windows disk, and it started formatting the partition ect i left it for a bit it finished the format the started installing summet dnt no what left it again and came back to a black screen with this" windows could not start becuase of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. could not read from the selected boot disk check boot path and disk hardware." what i do now :( i dnt even know whats gone wrong lol

[CanaBalistic]

summet dnt no what left it again

What?

Its been a while since i last had to format a drive from cd. Does it start installing windows and then you get an error? or does the error come up before windows starts installing?

Is it an old hard drive or new? IDE or SATA? I've never had a SATA drive and dont know anything about raid setups so if it is a sata drive you might have a problem in the configuration.

I never liked the "cable select" jumper mode on hard drives, pick master or slave accordingly. Master is the end plug on the IDE patch cord.

Doesnt windows run a disk scan before installing?
If the hard drive formatted properly i see no reason why it shouldnt install.

[jsb666]

i really dnt know i think it was windows it started installing but i left the room and came back and it was like that. The format had finished i was in the room when it did. Its a SATA drive its a brand new drive.

[crazybillybob]

Ok with Windows Xp and SATA, you must hit the f key in the bigianing of the install ( at the bottom of the blue screen it says hit F3 it think, to install Raid controllor drives) Xp does not have native SATA drivers (if it does they never work), so you need your sata drivers on a floppy disk (and a floppy drive hooked up), hit the F key and follow the directions.


Good luck,
Crazybillybob

[jsb666]

Thanks m8 after i read your post i checked the Mothrboard guide and there is a section on it :) i really should read things before i dive head first into it and make mistake :p

[jsb666]

arhhh things keep going wrong my floppy drive on my pc is not working now for me 2 make the disk with the drivers on

[Cevinzol]

Is your floppy USB? If so, then unless the M/B BIOS has drivers for it, the drive won't work until the O/S setup is loaded. Kind of a catch-22 thing.

If its a standard cabled FDD then check to make sure you have it connected as drive "A" not "B" and that the cable isn't backwards.